Russia

U.S. Ambassador Kelly Craft says she has shared a draft U.N. Security Council resolution with Russia that would extend the arms embargo against Iran indefinitely

A major clean-up operation has been launched in Siberia after more than 15,000 tons of diesel fuel was released into a river above the Arctic circle ⁠— threatening a pristine territory through a series of lakes and tributaries.

Facebook has started labeling some content as coming from foreign state-controlled media outlets, the company announced Thursday. Pages of overtly state-run news agencies such as Russia’s RT and Sputnik, and China’s Xinhua News and the People’s Daily, will be labeled as such, a Facebook representative said. At least 18 news outlets’ pages, with hundreds of millions of followers, will receive...

The Trump administration’s new national intelligence director, John Ratcliffe, has declassified documents that allies of the president say bolster their contention that former national security adviser Michael Flynn was wrongly pursued

The U.S. National Security Agency says the same Russian military hacking group that interfered in the 2016 presidential election and unleashed a devastating 2017 malware attack has been exploiting a major email server program since last August or earlier.

Time is running out on an arms control treaty that, if it’s allowed to expire, will leave the world with no legal restrictions on U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons for the first time in nearly half a century.

FBI Director Christopher Wray has ordered an internal review into possible misconduct in the investigation of former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn

President Donald Trump says Russian violations make it untenable for the U.S. to stay in a treaty that permits 30-plus nations to conduct observation flights over each other’s territory

The Supreme Court is temporarily preventing the House of Representatives from obtaining secret grand jury testimony from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation

The Justice Department has reviewed their case against Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, and decided to drop its criminal case.

Officials in Russia say two doctors have died and another was seriously hurt in falls from hospital windows after they reportedly came under pressure over working conditions in the coronavirus pandemic

Russian President Vladimir Putin has awarded Kim Jong Un a commemorative war medal marking the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany, the Russian embassy in Pyongyang said Tuesday.

Gorgeous spring weather across the United States and Europe is drawing people cooped up indoors for weeks outside to soak in the sun, even as additional coronavirus hot spots in places like Russia emerge

Dmitry Yakukhny, a Russian distance runner, completed a 100-kilometer (62-mile) run around his bed during lockdown as a way of encouraging everyone to exercise during the coronavirus outbreak.

A bipartisan investigation by the Senate Intelligence Committee has validated the January 2017 U.S. intelligence assessment describing Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election — including Russian efforts to help Donald Trump — describing it as accurate, thorough, and untainted by political bias, NBC News reported. The CIA and other spy agencies produced the assessment during the final weeks of the...

The Russian Investigative Committee released footage of a plane landing while on fire. The incident, which resulted in 41 deaths, occurred in May 2019.

A deal between OPEC and nations including Russia to boost oil prices involves a 10 million barrels per day cut until July, then an 8 million barrels per day cut through the end of the year, though the cartel said Friday its approval hinges on Mexico’s agreement.

Three astronauts have arrived at the International Space Station, after departing the virus-plagued planet

The Trump administration has designated a Russian white supremacist group a terrorist organization and hit its members with sanctions

As of April 3, more than 22,000 Americans in foreign countries are still looking to the U.S. government for help in getting back home, according to U.S. Department of State estimates.